About one in four people sometimes feels pain in the chest . Such pains are the second most common reason for calling an emergency medical service. This phenomenon is usually associated with problems of the heart, lungs or other organs located in the chest area. However, at the examination it turns out that these organs are healthy and can not cause such painful sensations. Then, what is the reason for their occurrence? The cause of such a pain may be vertebrogenic thoracology.
Symptoms of Chronic Vertebrogenic Thoracalgia
- chest pain;
- pain when turning and tilting the trunk;
- pain under or between the ribs from the front;
- pain when breathing in and out;
- pain between shoulder blades and in the shoulders.
Diagnosis and causes of vertebrogenic thoracology
Typically, the sensations experienced in this disease are localized in the chest area along the anterior, lateral or posterior wall. In order to determine the nature of the disease, a number of studies are carried out, including ultrasound, chest X-ray, computer and magnetic resonance imaging (CT and MRI), various blood tests. If diseases of the organs are excluded, then according to the results of CT and MRI, one can judge the vertebrogenic origin of the pain. In this case, we are talking about osteochondrosis in its various manifestations:
- cervical osteochondrosis ;
- thoracic osteochondrosis;
- intervertebral hernia, arising in the thoracic and cervical region;
- scoliosis;
- osteoporosis;
- tumors of the vertebrae or spinal cord;
- spinal injury of varying severity;
- incorrect development of the spine (in children and adolescents).
In addition, other factors may be the cause of the development of chronic thoracology:
- low activity, irregular physical activity;
- stress;
- bad ecology;
- alcohol abuse, drug use, smoking;
- decreased immunity;
- allergy;
- load on the spine during pregnancy;
- passive lifestyle.
Treatment of vertebrogenic thoracology
Treatment of thoracalgia can be carried out both medically and folk methods. Very often the cause of chest pain has deeper roots. Therefore, when regular symptoms of thoracalgia appear, it is desirable to conduct a complete examination of the body and find out the initial source of the disease. It is very important to neutralize the source itself, which generates chronic thoracology.
Speaking about the treatment of thoracalgia, first of all, it is necessary to say about the obligatory conditions that the patient must adhere to:
- Rejection of bad habits.
- Compliance with bed rest (with acute manifestation of thoracalgia). The bed should be firm enough.
- The chest should be kept warm.
- Medication methods of treatment:
- Different types of therapy: acupuncture, moxa therapy.
- Therapeutic massage, pharmacopuncture.
- Manual techniques for spinal traction, physiotherapy exercises.
- Anesthetics.
Treatment of thoracalgia with folk remedies
Traditional methods of treatment:
- Warming of the chest. For this, mustard plasters, a heating pad, heated salt or sand in a bag are used. In addition, rubbing of the site of pain localization with alcoholic tinctures is also used.
- Teas with chamomile, honey, lemon balm, valerian.
- Black radish juice. He is rubbed into a place where there is pain.
It should be remembered that the more effective and able to get rid of the disease is nevertheless the medical treatment of vertebrogenic thoracalgia, and the folk remedies only help to get rid of its symptoms for a while.